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For years, developers have been drawn to the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront, enticed by its skyline views and proximity to Manhattan. But while the waterfront has decent subway connections to Manhattan, the paucity of north-west transportation connecting Astoria to, say, Red Hook, has long been a source of frustration.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday he thinks New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made a "huge mistake" when he unilaterally killed a funded plan to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River and redirected much of the money to road projects in his own state. Governor Andrew Cuomo's not so sure.

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Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Tumblr Print In an effort to prevent the once-glamorous office district dubbed Midtown East from going the way of pied-a-terre studded 57th Street, the committee tasked with charting its future is proposing measures that would restrict residential development there.

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A disabled train has rendered the southern half of the only tube connecting midtown Manhattan and New Jersey temporarily impassable. Train number 130 was on its way to New York when it got stuck "just a few minutes ago," Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz told Capital Tuesday morning.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday told a gathering of New York real estate, lobbyist and government types that he would begin a wholesale rebuild of LaGuardia Airport, a facility Vice President Joe Biden is not impressed with at all.

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Hillary Clinton began a Friday afternoon speech about the way the United States does business by dealing with some business of another sort. "First I want to say about a word about what's in the news today," she said, placing her hands on either side of a podium at the N.Y.U.

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Declaring "the fat has been removed," Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday evening unveiled a slimmed down program to keep the region's mass transit system in reasonably good working order. "Really the investment in the M.T.A., I believe, has not been what it should be," Cuomo said on NY1.

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On Sunday morning, Patrick Jenkins, a longtime political operative and a close friend of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, took to Facebook to talk about how his father taught him he "deserved the same treatment and services that everyone in this city enjoyed."

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A day after Governor Andrew Cuomo insinuated that it was the city's responsibility to fund the M.T.A. capital program, even though the governor effectively runs it, Mayor Bill de Blasio pointed out that actually, "The M.T.A. is the state's domain." "The state has responsibility for the M.T.A.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo called today for a greater state role in regulating Uber, possibly laying the groundwork for superceding Mayor Bill de Blasio on what has become a very high-profile issue. "We're going to need a state regulatory framework for Uber," Cuomo said Thursday in an interview on "The Capitol Pressroom" with Susan Arbetter.